Authentication info?

[Havoc Pennington]

Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> With some digging I found some information about authentication and
> security policies in D-BUS, but I wonder: is there any way for an object
> to receive authentication information about a requesting client?
> 

You can ask org.freedesktop.DBus for the unix user of another 
connection. It doesn't come up that often though since services that 
provide e.g. your address book would usually be on the session bus, 
which only has one user on it anyhow.

Havoc